On Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:34:27 AM John Thornton did opine: > I've given up using the touch off for setting the Z offset for the tool > table due to making so many mistakes with not having the correct touch > off selected in the menu and created a pyvcp button to do that. Next on > the list is a pyvcp button to touch off the Z of the material. I always > use a 0.375 dowel to find the Z so typing that in each time is pia due > to the crappy keyboard mount I came up with on the CHNC. > > John
There is an echo in here. Maybe John and I are alone, but I think far fewer homing and touch off mistakes, where a previously established setting was in-advertantly foobared, is caused by the auto coupling between the last axis moved and these two functions. I have destroyed my Z hundreds of times while trying to fine tune the X. After a while, it becomes quite an irritant for me. The Home and Touch Off popup boxes themselves really should contain a dot per axis, defaulted to off, perhaps allowing multiselect for the Home function but mutually exclusive for Touch Off. Whatever, but _make_ us confirm the axis to apply it to. More button clicks, yes, but way fewer mistakes too. IMO. YMMV. ;-) > On 5/8/2012 6:01 AM, andy pugh wrote: > > On 8 May 2012 04:18, Chris Radek<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I must say that most often what I do with touch off is to accept the > >> default zero value because I want to set the system origin where the > >> tool is. I also frequently type +/- an edge finder or probe tip > >> radius. > >> > >> In some cases, though, like for lathe X, I am always touching off the > >> tool and very rarely would want the zero value there. > > > > Zero is probably needed more often, but zero is very much easier to > > type than the current value (which might or might not be visible under > > the dialog). > > I would think that a reasonable compromise would be the current value, > > pre-highlighted so that typing zero over-types. > > > > More exotic ideas might involve two entry boxes and two "submit" > > buttons... > > > > While we are at it, I would prefer separate buttons for "tool table" > > and "coordinate system" touch-off, rather than relying on my feeble > > memory to select the correct option in the drop-down. Perhaps this choice also could be incorporated into the popups as two more dot buttons? It does seem like a desirable feature. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Mix's Law: There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building. There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
